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March 11, 2010

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Duties of a Lawyer

Lawyers provide justice in today’s society disputes! The duty of a lawyer is to serve you with their best knowledge regarding your lawsuit situation. Selecting the right lawyer is very important. Recent studies on lawyers prove that one lawyer concentrates on more than one client. This can cause a lawyer to limit attention to certain cases and filing dates, possibly causing you to lose your lawsuit.

Have you or a friend been legally abused by a lawyer and lost your case? Contact our Legal Malpractice Lawyer now to get more information.

Some traits a qualified lawyer should possess include:

Reputation
Dependable and Responsible
Bar Certified - Licensed
Punctual and Accurate

A lawyer’s duty is to help people with dilemmas and legal problems that caused them harm. It is important that the lawyer keeps all the information provided confidential. It is the lawyer’s role to notify the client regarding rules and regulation that helps them get started with their case. Failing to follow the procedures with a lawsuit can delay and hurt the client’s chances of winning the case. Scheduled meetings should be recorded to assure the lawyer is assisting the client with the proceedings of the lawsuit.

The lawyer’s priorities are to help the client to win the case! When they neglect timelines and dates, this may cause a ripple effect and either prolong the case or lose it. Their duty is to give the client full attention for the best outcome in any legal matter with their actions being responsible and ethical. If you had a lawyer not give your case the correct legal attention to win a legitimate case, then you need our legal malpractice lawyers to sue your previous attorney.

Have you or a friend been legally abused by a lawyer and lost your case? Contact our Legal Malpractice Lawyer now to get more information.

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Did You Know?

Some Legal Malpractice complaint lawsuits result in large amounts of money.

Last year, almost 2,000 victims received over $100,000.

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Lawyers are still committing legal malpractice

Each year lawyers that commit legal malpractice overcharge fees, lose cases, or neglect their client’s needs and statistics show approximately 35,000 legal malpractice cases occur each year.

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Emotional Distress can be sought in legal malpractice cases

After losing your legal case because of your lawyer, there is traumatic emotional distress build up from the previous case and now combined with the malpractice from this lawyer, you are faced with more emotional problems and are entitled to compensation.

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Personal Injury case are the largest area in legal malpractice.

In fact, lawyers representing a client in a Personal Injury case make up approximately 25% of legal malpractice cases.

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